Lisa Soronen

If you did, you may view and listen to a recording of the webinar here:  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/938598930. 

In this webinar Lisa Soronen, SLLC Executive Director, discusses the most important cases accepted so far affecting state and local government including four environmental cases, four Fourth Amendment search cases, a Chevron deference case, and a voter registration case out of Arizona; a few of the Court’s likely big grants (same sex marriage, constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Fair Housing Act disparate impact claims); and the Court’s most prominent grant to date (a challenge to the University of Texas-Austin’s affirmative action program). 

So far the most controversial case the U.S. Supreme Court has accepted for its October 2012 term involves the University of Texas-Austin’s affirmative action plan.  Will it take a gay marriage case is the big question.  If the Court’s objective is to lie low after deciding two particularly controversial cases—the Affordable Care Act cases and Arizona immigration case—stormwater runoff might be a safe subject matter to take up.  This perhaps explains why the Court has accepted not one but two stormwater runoff cases! 

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If you gamble at a casino there is no question whether you have won or lost.  Nevertheless in a recent Supreme Court case affecting state government, involving land to be used for a casino, victory or defeat...depends.   

This week the U.S. Supreme Court held in Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak that the United States can be sued for acquiring land per the Indian Reorganization Act.  And a private citizen who lives near the acquired land has “standing” to bring the lawsuit.